1 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:07,200 It's good to see everyone out this morning. 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,800 Good to see you here, Echo. Steve this morning. 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,900 Thank you for being here, especially any guests. 4 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:18,500 We have with us this morning. Thank you for choosing to 5 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:22,700 worship with us. We realize that we're not the 6 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:29,200 only church in town. So we're we feel privileged to 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,400 have any visitors with us this morning. 8 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:37,000 We thank you for being here. Obviously, I'm not Kyle Jones, 9 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:45,700 lead pastor, but my name is James, James Jones, and both 10 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:52,500 Kyle and Jasper out today. It was there things that they 11 00:00:52,500 --> 00:01:00,000 had planned for this weekend. So I'm before you this morning 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,099 and I get the privilege of starting off New sermon series 13 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,200 today, starting today. Over the next ten weeks. 14 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,200 We're going to be once again, in the Book of Psalms. 15 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,800 We've been doing this over the past few Summers, where we will 16 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:24,500 spend the summer in the Book of Psalms. 17 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:29,900 And we'll each week will be in a new Psalm this morning. 18 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:33,000 We're going to be in Psalm 116 start off the season. 19 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:37,800 Series. But the whole series is about 20 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,600 aligning ourselves with God's heart. 21 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:43,800 That's that's what we want out of this series. 22 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,800 It's not just to feel Tha more to feel the summer Tom. 23 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:55,100 It's it's, it's meant to help us align ourselves with God's 24 00:01:55,100 --> 00:02:02,900 heart. Pat Puritan, Pastor Richards, 25 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:06,400 see ABS when describing the book of Psalm says this. 26 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:13,200 They are the anatomy of a holy man which lay the inside of him 27 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,300 outward for all to see. If the scriptures be compared to 28 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:20,700 a body, the Psalms would be the heart. 29 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,500 They are so full of sweet, affections and passions for in 30 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:29,100 other portions of scripture, God speaks to us. 31 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:35,100 But the, but in the Psalms holy me in speak to God and their own 32 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:39,400 hearts, and that last phrase, holy men, speak to God and their 33 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 own Hearts is all about alignment. 34 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,400 You always face a decision about who, Who or what you are. 35 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,300 Aligning yourself up with, for Christians. 36 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:55,900 The answer should be clear. But you have to pay attention to 37 00:02:55,900 --> 00:03:00,500 those butts. You know, where in scripture any 38 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:04,300 time the word but is used in relation to humans. 39 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:08,900 It's almost every time in a negative context. 40 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:15,500 However, anytime you see the word but and it's related to God 41 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:20,400 is always 100% of the time, always in a in a positive 42 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,200 connotation. So that's that should be you 43 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,600 know, kind of waking us. So, that's all the Christian. 44 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,600 Should she answer should be clear that we share a lot 45 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:38,900 ourselves up with God, but the desires of our flesh, our 46 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:43,200 rebellious to God's word. So, there's a decision about 47 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,200 alignment that we have to make every day. 48 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:47,900 And that's what this series is all about. 49 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,200 The Psalms are a gift from God concerning our alignment 50 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,200 struggle in them. We see mankind dealing openly 51 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,400 and honestly, with God on a variety of issues, every one of 52 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:05,000 them points us to God's heart, showing us the way to align 53 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:12,200 ourselves with God's heart. It was not by happenstance that 54 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,000 Psalm 1 is the first Psalm in the Book of Psalms. 55 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,600 I don't believe it says, blessed is the man who walks not in the 56 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,500 counsel of the wicked nor stands in the way of Sinners, nor sits 57 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:30,500 in the seat of scoffers. But his Delight. 58 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,500 Is in the law of the Lord. And on his law, he meditates day 59 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:42,100 and night Says that he is like a tree planted by the streams of 60 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:46,300 water that yields its fruit in its season and it's Leaf does 61 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:51,900 not Wither in all that he does. He prospers the wicked are not 62 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:57,600 so but they are like chaff that the wind drives away, therefore 63 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,300 the wicked will not stand in the Judgment nor sinners in the 64 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:05,500 congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of 65 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:09,300 the righteous. But the Way of the Wicked Will 66 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:13,800 perish. Blessed is the man who what 67 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:19,600 takes counsel his Delight is in the law of the Lord. 68 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,300 He aligns himself up with God and his word. 69 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:25,700 And that's what this series is all about. 70 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:32,700 Amen, as we align ourselves up with God's heart, we will be 71 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:36,400 able to fulfill our Church's mission statement. 72 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:42,400 That we will that we will glorify God by making disciples 73 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:47,100 who grow in their faith, in in Jesus and their love for one 74 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:51,200 another. So as we dive into Psalm 116 75 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,500 this morning, that's what our goal of this series is aligning 76 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:58,100 ourselves up with God's heart, a man. 77 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:01,500 Let's pray. Father, I praise you. 78 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:08,500 I magnify you. father, I thank you for this opportunity that we 79 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:15,500 have to gather to our symbol ourselves for the sole purpose 80 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:22,500 of worshipping and magnifying you Father today, I ask that you 81 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:26,600 will speak to us through your word. 82 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,600 Father is out of clear. Your word is your true. 83 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,600 Father, may they not hear me, but they may, they hear you 84 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,800 father. Holy Spirit. 85 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,300 I ask that you would just open our eyes and their ears. 86 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:49,100 Enlighten us, as Jesus declared that you would open the scripts. 87 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:51,800 Open the truth of scripture up to us this morning. 88 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,200 And I give you honor and glory and praise. 89 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,200 Amen. Here in Psalm 116, we will begin 90 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,900 on verse 1. And if you are able, if you will 91 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:18,000 stand this morning, Word of God declares here in 92 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,800 Psalm 116 verse 1. I love the Lord because he has 93 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,700 heard my voice and my pleas for Mercy because he inclined his 94 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:32,700 ear to me, therefore, I will call on him as long as I live. 95 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:38,200 The snares of death and compassed me the Pains of shio 96 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,500 laid, hold on me, I suffered distress and anguish. 97 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,800 Then I called on the name of the Lord. 98 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:51,600 Oh Lord, I pray deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord and 99 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,700 righteous. Our God is merciful. 100 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,400 The Lord preserves the simple when I was brought low, he saved 101 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:07,700 me return, O my soul to your rest for the Lord has dealt 102 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:12,000 bountifully with you for. You have delivered, my soul from 103 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,400 Death. My eyes from tears, my feet from 104 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,400 stumbling. I walk, I will walk before the 105 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:24,600 Lord in the land of the living. I believe, even when I spoke, 106 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:29,000 I'm greatly Afflicted. I said in my alarm all mankind 107 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,200 or Liars. What shall I render to the Lord 108 00:08:33,299 --> 00:08:37,299 for all his benefits? To me, I will lift up the cup of 109 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:42,100 Salvation and call on the name of the Lord, I will pay my vows 110 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:45,800 to the Lord in the presence of all his people. 111 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:49,100 Precious is the sight of the Lord. 112 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,900 Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his 113 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:55,100 Saints. Oh Lord. 114 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:58,000 I'm your servant. I am your servant. 115 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,800 The son of your maidservant, you have loosed. 116 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,600 My bonds. I were offered to you. 117 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,800 The sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call on the name of the 118 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,900 Lord. I will pay my vows to the Lord 119 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:14,000 in the presence of all his people in the courts of the 120 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,900 house of the Lord. In your Mist over Jerusalem, 121 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,900 praise the Lord. You may be seated. 122 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,600 Seated. Hallelujah. 123 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,300 This morning, I want to just endeavor. 124 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,600 To talk to her a little bit about this matches message that 125 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,200 I've entitled because is why we have faith in Christ. 126 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:44,900 Because is why we have faith in Christ. 127 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,300 The psalmist here says I love the Lord because he has heard my 128 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:55,900 voice and my pleas for Mercy verse 2 because he inclined his 129 00:09:55,900 --> 00:10:04,400 ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. the 130 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:14,100 central theme of today's if you as Jasper would say the message 131 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:17,600 in a sentence of the sermon in a sentence would be we as 132 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,700 Believers can and should put our total faith in Christ for our 133 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:29,100 Safety and Security because Of Christ's faithfulness. we as 134 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:33,700 Believers can and should put our total faith in Christ for our 135 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:39,500 Safety and Security because of Christ's faithfulness And I'm 136 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:43,200 going to attempt to bring out three aspects of this central 137 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,700 theme this morning. The first one is our faith in 138 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:50,200 Christ is exponential, exponential. 139 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:55,100 We experience his faith. Our faith in Christ is 140 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:59,100 personalized in our faith. In Christ is relational. 141 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,700 In the first aspect of our central theme is our faith. 142 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:10,700 In God is experiential. We experience our faith in 143 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:14,900 Christ. He says, I love the Lord because 144 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:22,100 this word because comes with the picture of this of of the time 145 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:23,800 or something that has been proven. 146 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,700 He says I love the Lord. Why? 147 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:30,000 Because he has proven himself faithful. 148 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:36,200 Psalm 34 verses 2 through 8 says this my soul. 149 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,800 This is speaking of the somnus mistake, picking up my mind, my 150 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,700 inner man. My thought life, my soul makes 151 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:48,800 his boast in the Lord, let the humble here and be glad o 152 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,300 magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. 153 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:56,800 I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me 154 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,900 from all my fears. Not just some all my Ears, those 155 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:08,000 who look on him already, aunt and their faces shall never be 156 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,000 ashamed. This poor man cried in the Lord 157 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:18,400 heard him and saved him out of all his troubles, the angel of 158 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,800 the Lord encamps around those who fear Him and delivers them o 159 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,300 taste and see. That the Lord is good. 160 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:31,000 Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. 161 00:12:31,700 --> 00:12:36,600 Once again, Psalm 1. Blessed is the man who Delights 162 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:42,200 in the law of God. So he says, I love the Lord 163 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:47,300 because Because he's proven himself faithful. 164 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,900 That's why James could write in James. 165 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:54,600 Chapter 1 verses two through four count. 166 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,700 It all joy. My brothers when you meet Trials 167 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:03,000 of various kinds for, you know, was look at that word. 168 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:09,000 No, right there. you know, what do they know and why do they 169 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:14,400 know because Because they've seen the Lord faithful. 170 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:19,100 For, you know, that the testing of your faith produces 171 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:22,900 steadfastness and let steadfastness have its full 172 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:30,600 effect that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing. 173 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,900 So James do the same thing as the psalmist said in Psalm 116. 174 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:44,100 The faithfulness of Christ had been proven to them over and 175 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:47,700 over, and over. And we can have that same 176 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:51,100 assurance. We can have faith in Christ. 177 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:54,400 Why? Because because we've seen his 178 00:13:54,400 --> 00:14:03,500 faithfulness, amen. He says he had heard my cry my 179 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:08,900 pleas for Mercy, I love I love Hebrew words. 180 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,500 Because their picture words, it doesn't, they don't just 181 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:18,500 describe something, they, they, they unfold a picture and this 182 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:22,400 word that heard where he heard my pleas. 183 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:30,300 For Mercy, means to hear and listen with with the intent to 184 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:33,700 listen and understand. So it's not just that he heard 185 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:36,200 me. How many times have we heard 186 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:37,900 someone? But not really heard what they 187 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:41,400 said. How many times have those with 188 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:42,700 kids? How many times have you said 189 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:44,400 something to you kid, and turned around? 190 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,400 They go. What was that? 191 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,500 Well, I heard this and this and this but I didn't hear all that. 192 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:54,000 We have the taint, same tendency. 193 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,300 Sometimes we could hear someone but not really here, then but 194 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:04,200 here, the psalmist says that he heard My Cry, he listened to me 195 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:12,000 with intent to understand my plea that's another reason, 196 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:17,600 because That we that Christ shows himself faithful. 197 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:22,300 Their word mercy is a plea for favor. 198 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,100 Which means gracious. Kindness shown toward one by his 199 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:31,700 Superior. So when he says I love the Lord 200 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:40,600 because he heard my voice and my pleas for mercy He knows, he's 201 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,400 he cried out to God in the past and seeing God answer. 202 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:51,900 So as you and I cry out to God, as we put our faith in Christ as 203 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:57,200 our Lord and savior, and we we go through trials, we go through 204 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,100 struggles, we go through tribulations, and we look to 205 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:04,900 Christ, we don't look to the world, we don't look to to 206 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:06,700 money. We don't look at our jobs, we 207 00:16:06,708 --> 00:16:08,800 don't look at our friends or family. 208 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,800 Look to God and him alone and we see him bless us. 209 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,800 We see him Prosper us, we put our Delight in God's law and 210 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:25,000 because of that, everything we do prospers, we say that over 211 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,000 and over we and we experience God's faithfulness. 212 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:35,500 Then we learn what? Because means we love the Lord 213 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:39,300 because he met me in this situation. 214 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,200 I love the Lord because he answered this prayer. 215 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:48,200 Amen, verse 2. It says because he inclined his 216 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:53,900 ear to me, this word incline, means to stretch out to extend 217 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:55,800 to offer. Offer? 218 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,900 What Favor. That's why his plea were his 219 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:02,800 plea for Mercy was as plea for favor. 220 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:09,000 It also means to stretch out or to pitch a tent, its meaning to 221 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,599 stretch out with the intent, to plant yourself. 222 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,599 Which speaks of the longevity of favor, the longevity of God's 223 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:25,500 blessing, because the psalmist goes on and says, how long will 224 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:29,100 I cry out to the Lord? He says, all the days of my 225 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:35,400 life, He says, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 226 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,000 Why? Because Because is why we have 227 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,400 faith in Christ. Amen. 228 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,100 We've experienced it it's not just something that we can read 229 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:49,300 about but we can experience God's faithfulness. 230 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:58,600 But I have to ask this question this morning, why does the Lord 231 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,500 hear our plea? We can that we can establish 232 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:08,000 that because God here is our plea that we love him. 233 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,200 But why, why would god look on the psalmist? 234 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,800 David writes, you know why? What's so significant about me? 235 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:25,500 What's so significant about us? First John, 4:19 tells us that 236 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,300 we love because he first loved us. 237 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:42,800 Amen, we love because he first loved us. because, Because God 238 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,200 first loved us. We in turn love him. 239 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:52,200 Because we love God. We want to serve and Obey him 240 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:58,600 because we serve and Obey him. He hears our pleas for favor, 241 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:04,600 because he hears our pleas for favor, He blesses us and helps 242 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:10,700 us in our time of need Because he helps us in our time of need. 243 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:15,600 We learned that we can put our faith and our trust in him. 244 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,000 It's all that. It's we experience his 245 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,500 faithfulness every day. We wake up is a new day to 246 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:29,200 experience God's faithfulness. Does that mean everything is 247 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:34,500 going to be a Bed of Roses know that mean we're not going to go 248 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:36,300 through trials and tribulations. Absolutely. 249 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:40,300 And I we just read that in the Book of James is everyday going 250 00:19:40,300 --> 00:19:42,900 to be a good day. Probably not. 251 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,600 But God's going to be with us every day. 252 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,700 Amen. We're going to experience that 253 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:53,600 faithfulness. And because we experience that, 254 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,500 we can say, why, why do you love God? 255 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:59,200 Why do you serve God? Why do you believe in Jesus? 256 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:03,200 Because and then we can tell him, tell them all the reasons. 257 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:09,200 Why because we experienced that as we look on verses 3 through 258 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,600 6, speaks of God being gracious, righteous and merciful. 259 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:16,400 He speaks of the snares of death. 260 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:23,000 It's it puts the picture once again he the Hebrew words, it 261 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:28,300 paints a picture of of having a rope or being being bound by a 262 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,700 cord. It even mentions the word 263 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:36,100 travail as a woman travailing in childbirth, it's like on the 264 00:20:36,108 --> 00:20:40,900 brink of dying. He was in, he was in distress 265 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:45,200 and anguish. Then we look at verse 4. 266 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,900 Says then I called on the name of the Lord. 267 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:53,600 Oh Lord. I pray deliver my soul. 268 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:03,100 Once again he says my soul is speaks of our mind, our in term 269 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:07,900 and our thought life. Why self-talk is so important? 270 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:13,500 If your pardon me speaker or been in home groups, you know, I 271 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:15,200 talk about this a lot, but guess what? 272 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,300 I'm going to talk about again, our thought life is so 273 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:24,000 important. Our self-talk, how we talk to 274 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:31,200 ourselves because every thought every every word that we speak 275 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:38,700 or every action, we do began as a thought I can have. 276 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,500 Feel like I'm hungry and walking to the kitchen and fix me a 277 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:46,700 sandwich. But before I waited went there, 278 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,200 I thought about what I was going to do. 279 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,700 Once I got there, the same thing. 280 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:56,300 Every word that we speak, every action that we do began as a 281 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:59,100 thought. That's why it says in 2nd 282 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:04,200 Corinthians 10 talking about think about what you're thinking 283 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:10,400 about capture those thoughts because to think that is bad 284 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:15,500 enough. But for that to come out in our 285 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:18,900 in our speech or our thought life to think that and to say 286 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:24,500 that especially about ourselves, we come into agreement with 287 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:28,000 that. And then we we then we begin to 288 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,800 believe that about ourselves, amen. 289 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,900 So he says, then I called on the name of the Lord. 290 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:38,800 Oh Lord. I pray deliver. 291 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,600 My soul verse 5. The Lord is gracious. 292 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:48,400 This is speaks of him here in the Cry of the Vets, he's 293 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,500 righteous Meats, which means he's just and Sovereign God, and 294 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:56,400 he's merciful. Which speaks of his deep love 295 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:02,000 and having compassion. And in verse 6, he says the Lord 296 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,300 preserves the simple. He keeps watch. 297 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:10,700 He guards, he protects, who are the simple and foolish. 298 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:18,400 Isn't it, isn't it Grand think that even when I'm foolish that 299 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:24,800 God still looks over me. Even when we make mistakes, Even 300 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:31,000 when we make a bad decision. In the Heat of the Moment and 301 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:37,000 something comes out of her mouth that shouldn't God still looks 302 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:42,200 over sin. Those times a man. when I was 303 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:47,300 brought low, when was he brought low in verse 48 because of his 304 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,700 distress and anguish, he saved me. 305 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:54,000 Even when I was brought low, he saved me. 306 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:01,500 He liberated, he delivered me. It's all. 307 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:08,100 Something that was experienced. So the first aspect is our faith 308 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:11,500 in Christ is exponential, is something that we experience. 309 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:16,500 The second aspect of our central theme today is our faith in 310 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:21,000 Christ is personalized. It's part of our aligning 311 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,300 ourselves up with God's heart. Because God first loved us and 312 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:29,900 because if you had noticed, you're going to hear the word 313 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:33,700 because a lot this morning because God first loved us and 314 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:37,400 because we learn through our trials and sufferings that 315 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,500 Christ is faithful. We have to remind our own minds 316 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:45,100 of this truth. When worry or doubt start to 317 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:49,700 creep into our thought life. I pray. 318 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:51,900 Here are my notes. This is the turning point. 319 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,700 Because of the truce in verses 1 through 6, we have to ask 320 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:00,300 ourselves, how am I going to live? 321 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,900 And in somnus answers that in verse 7, he says return old my 322 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:13,200 soul, my mind, my thought, life to your rest return, to your 323 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,200 rest, which is a place of quietness and safety. 324 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:22,500 When Jesus was with his disciples and they Were in the 325 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,900 storm on the boat. Jesus was asleep. 326 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,500 I don't think he was just asleep to be part of a story 327 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:33,400 illustrates how to be quiet and restful. 328 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,700 While we're going through the turbulent times in life. 329 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,500 Amen. We caught, we all have different 330 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,500 things that we've experienced. We all can can, hopefully can 331 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:48,400 say that we've seen God's faithfulness through each step 332 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,200 of the way. I talked about this a lot that 333 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,900 God is a connected, connect the dot God. 334 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,000 You have a, you know, a child's paper with a connector dot 335 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,700 picture and you don't know what the picture is because it's just 336 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:05,700 a bunch of dots. But once you begin to get a 337 00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:09,100 pencil and you start connecting those dots, the more dots you 338 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:12,400 have connected, the more, the picture that's on that page 339 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,100 comes to life and that's how we are. 340 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,200 God knows all the dots. We don't. 341 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:22,800 But we have Do is have faith in him that he's going to get his 342 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,400 from 1.2, the next Dot. And when we connect those dots, 343 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:31,700 the picture that God is trying to teach us and lead us becomes 344 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:35,200 more clear, but we have to trust that by faith. 345 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,800 It says for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. 346 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,900 I really love this part. This word bountifully, once 347 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:50,500 again these Hebrew words paint a picture. 348 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:56,700 It Paints the picture of of a child being weaned from milk to 349 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:00,200 meet. The picture of a child being 350 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,600 weaned from milk to meet and we think about what? 351 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:10,300 Okay, how does Christ do this? the simple answer, he allows us 352 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:17,900 to go through trials and sufferings You know, these are I 353 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:21,600 asked one time. How many knows that in 354 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,100 Christian? Christian dome in church. 355 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,500 We have dirty words. The world has dirty words. 356 00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:32,000 The Christian and the Christian the church, we have dirty words, 357 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,700 their trials suffering. Those are dirty words in church. 358 00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:40,700 People don't want to hear too much about going through trials 359 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:45,600 and sufferings. What are the fruits of the 360 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:52,300 spirit is long-suffering or long-suffering? 361 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:58,600 We don't we want to hear that Christ saves us and we're good 362 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,300 to go until we're with him forever. 363 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:04,000 That nothing bad is going to happen to us. 364 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:07,000 It's never going to rain on us. It's never, you know, we're 365 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,700 never going to have hard times. And you know people that teach 366 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:15,300 that. They? 367 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,700 I'm not going to say what I want to say. 368 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:30,200 What they need, the duct tape Ministry and in their mouth duct 369 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,000 tape. So they can't preach that crowd. 370 00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:37,000 Amen. It's like the people on TV, you 371 00:28:37,008 --> 00:28:41,700 know, you know, snake oil salesmen you see on the 372 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:46,800 Christian channels? Yeah, I like them, send me your 373 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,700 money and you're going to be blessed, you know, 100 fold. 374 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,400 Guaranteed event. Mmm, Yeah. 375 00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:02,500 Okay let's just go on. He says, for you have delivered 376 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:08,300 my soul from Death. My eyes from tears, my feet from 377 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:12,600 stumbling. He's delivered, he can deliver 378 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,900 our mind from doubt and worry. Why? 379 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:24,500 what words coming next because In Christ, we have a solid 380 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:31,400 foundation. Verses 9 through 11 speaks of 381 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:35,600 assurance to one's self. Why? 382 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:41,300 Because because we have our faith in Christ is personalized, 383 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:45,300 is something that we personalize through experience. 384 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:51,700 Vers Nami. 90 says, I will Walk before the Lord. 385 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,100 In the land of the living verse 10. 386 00:29:55,100 --> 00:30:00,800 Says, I believed even when I spoke, I'm greatly Afflicted. 387 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,400 His speaking of he's talking to his own self right here. 388 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,200 Verse 11. I said in my alarm, all mankind 389 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,600 of liars, but all through it all, what did he do? 390 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:17,200 He believed he's telling him, so he's encouraging himself. 391 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,600 I will walk before the Lord, I believe, even when it didn't 392 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,200 look like, I should believe I believed anyway. 393 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:35,200 He-Man One of my favorite. Stories in the Bible is second 394 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,700 Chronicles chapter. 20 King Jehoshaphat in the nation of 395 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:46,100 Judah, being invaded by the moabites, and ammonites amounts, 396 00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:50,500 a year. And the nation of Judah, they 397 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:54,300 don't have any, they don't have the strength, or the manpower to 398 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:58,900 match that the enemy coming against them King Jehoshaphat 399 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:05,300 called, for a fee of called, for AAA, A prayer Tom and a fast. 400 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:09,500 And it says, as they were in this, that the spirit of the 401 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:14,700 Lord Came Upon, one individual and he spoke a word from God to 402 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:18,300 them. And, and the bulk of it is in 403 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:21,600 this one sentence stand still and see the salvation of the 404 00:31:21,608 --> 00:31:24,700 Lord. And said the next morning they 405 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:28,500 sent the Army out to face this massive Invasion. 406 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:33,600 But in front of the, in front of the Warriors, they Sent the 407 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,900 singers and the praisers. They ascend the Warriors out 408 00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:41,300 first, they sent those to praise and worship God. 409 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:46,400 And the Bible says, as they began to praise that God said 410 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,900 ambushment. So against the ammonites the 411 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:57,100 moabites and mounts a here. that Ammon and Moab joined forces and 412 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:04,000 killed all the military people from outside here and then Ammon 413 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000 and Moab turned on each other and they all killed each other. 414 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:12,000 And it says, when the Army got to the mountain to the Clift of 415 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,800 Zia's, they looked out in the valley and all they saw was dead 416 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,500 bodies. And it took them days to go down 417 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:24,400 and get all the spoil and bring back to their Camp. 418 00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:27,800 Why? Because they believe God's word 419 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,300 and you and I can experience we can we can experience his 420 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:39,300 faithfulness by living and pried out to him and then we can 421 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:43,200 personalize it by taking it into ourselves. 422 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,400 And we are, we encourage ourselves because of our 423 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,400 experiences in him. And then the third aspect this 424 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,900 morning is our faith in Christ is relational. 425 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:02,200 Our faith in Christ is relational. because God first 426 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:11,900 loved us and because we love him, we love one another What 427 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:14,200 should we do? Because of our faith in Christ 428 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:20,200 verse 12 tells us, What shall I render to the Lord for all his 429 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,300 benefits to me? This word render means. 430 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,500 I shall turn back to God in Repentance. 431 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:34,700 And why should we turn back to God? 432 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:38,300 Because of God's sovereignty. Human protection over all 433 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:42,800 things. Verse 14 says, I will pay my 434 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,900 vows to the Lord and the presence. 435 00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:51,300 Of all his people. So where should we pay our vows 436 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:56,700 in corporate worship? Relational living something. 437 00:33:56,700 --> 00:34:00,700 We call home groups. Those are not just times that 438 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:03,900 people get together during the week, just to hang out. 439 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,700 What we're doing this morning is not just something that we do. 440 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:10,500 This is something. We are should be something that 441 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:12,300 we are. It's relational living. 442 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:18,900 We come together and we declare every week as we praise songs as 443 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:23,800 we hear a sermon as we're strengthened by seeing one, 444 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,800 another, that we're praising were given. 445 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,400 Praise to God and we're doing it together. 446 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:34,800 So our faith in Christ is relational. 447 00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:39,199 We experience it. We personalize it on an 448 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,699 individual level level and then we get to come together in this 449 00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:47,699 setting or in a home group setting or in a, in a coffee 450 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:53,000 shop with with other believers. And we're Relationship with one 451 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,100 another. That's why I said aligning 452 00:34:56,100 --> 00:35:00,700 ourselves up with God's heart will accomplish our Church's 453 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:06,000 mission statement that we exist to glorify God and making 454 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000 disciples and growing in our love one another. 455 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:15,000 It's not not a one-man show. A man is not just us, it's not 456 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:20,200 just me me, me me, our faith in Christ, then turns us outward 457 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:23,800 into each other. So our faith in Christ is 458 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,200 relational. In corporate worship. 459 00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:33,600 Our acknowledge that God is Sovereign in all things, even 460 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:38,800 death, according to verse 15. In corporate worship, I will 461 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,800 acknowledge that I am a servant of God. 462 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:50,500 According to verse 16 in corporate worship, I will offer 463 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:54,800 the sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call on the name of the 464 00:35:54,808 --> 00:35:58,900 Lord. Once again in verses 18 and 19 465 00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:05,200 were told to pay our vows to the Lord where amongst all the 466 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,400 people. That's why we do this every 467 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,400 week. That's why it's so important. 468 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,800 The writer of Hebrews said not to forsake the assembling of 469 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,200 yourselves together as a matter of some have done it's not 470 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,100 something that we just do. It says something. 471 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:23,400 We experience every week when he commented you, we gather with 472 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,400 one another. It's part of our saying that we 473 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:33,500 have faith in Christ because we were in relation to one another. 474 00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:41,000 And where do we do this? Once again, verse 19, it says in 475 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:47,200 the courts of the house of the Lord in your midst of Jerusalem. 476 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:52,800 So in the courts and the presence of all God's people as 477 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,600 weaker corporately, Worship the Lord, amen. 478 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:03,400 And he finishes with the phrase. Praise the Lord. 479 00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:07,000 Why? Because we have faith in Christ, 480 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000 amen. Amen. 481 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:46,200 The stand this morning. This morning. do you think once 482 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:51,600 again on the central theme we as Believers can and should put our 483 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:57,300 faith in Christ in Jesus for our Safety and Security because of 484 00:37:57,300 --> 00:38:03,800 Christ's faithfulness As we live every day. 485 00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:12,000 As we serve God everyday. We have the great privilege of 486 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,700 experiencing his faithfulness on a daily basis. 487 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:24,100 And as we grow as God, begins to deal with us bountifully, which 488 00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:27,200 means he Wayne's us off milk into meat. 489 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:36,400 Every day, every month, every year, the more we walk with God, 490 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:42,300 closer, we get with God, the more we experience his 491 00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:47,700 faithfulness. the more we experience his faithfulness, the 492 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,900 more we make it our own The more we make it our own, the 493 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:53,900 stronger. The desire for us to be right 494 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:57,800 here, every Sunday morning to worship with each other 495 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:05,800 corporately to strengthen. One another Our faith can lift 496 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,800 up someone else, or day that we're down. 497 00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:12,100 Someone else's Faith Can Lift us up. 498 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:14,800 Someone else's story can lift us up. 499 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,900 So while we see her say, I'll call to worship every Sunday 500 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:24,300 morning. Something we believe in it's not 501 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:34,100 just words on the screen. we believe it and for this morning, 502 00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:41,300 if you have not put your faith and trust in Christ, I encourage 503 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:49,100 you to do so. And you can you can learn and 504 00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:55,000 discover what the word because means you can, you can learn 505 00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:01,000 about Christ's faithfulness. You can learn about. 506 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,700 Your internal security in you, amen. 507 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,000 Let's pray. Father, I praise you. 508 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,400 I magnify you. Father, I thank you. 509 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,900 That you hear our cries. I think you that your incline 510 00:40:26,900 --> 00:40:33,900 your ear to us. I thank you that when we are in 511 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:43,600 anguish and distress, father, you here, and you respond father 512 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,600 this morning, I asked, Let let your word. 513 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:55,400 Encourages this morning. Father, if there is one that is 514 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,500 going through a struggle, let this word encourage them. 515 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:07,600 As a psalmist declared, even though he was going through the 516 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:12,600 trouble, I will walk before the Lord. 517 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,400 So, Holy Spirit, I asked encourage this morning. 518 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:24,900 Encourage anyone that might be struggling this morning. 519 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:37,600 Ask that there is one hear that. Needs to put their faith in, you 520 00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:45,000 help them to do that. Father, I just give you honor 521 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,400 and glory and praise. I thank you for your word. 522 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:55,900 I thank you for your truth. We just got give you honor and 523 00:41:55,900 --> 00:42:00,500 glory and praise your name. We say, praise the Lord. 524 00:42:01,000 --> 00:41:45,000 Amen. Father, I just give you honor 525 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,400 and glory and praise. I thank you for your word. 526 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:55,900 I thank you for your truth. We just got give you honor and 527 00:41:55,900 --> 00:42:00,500 glory and praise your name. We say, praise the Lord. 528 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:01,500 Amen.